Director - Software Engineering at Authorize.net (C#, .Net Core, 15+ years' experience)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

As a Director of Software Engineering, you will guide the teams in the development of major new features by translating complex business problems into technical solutions that resonate with our merchants and partners. You will also drive cross-team projects that standardize our approach to API development and data schemas, ensuring consistent implementation of best practices across the organization. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily.

Beyond features you will be a driving and working across multiple teams to modernize our systems and deliver innovative online payment solutions. You will be instrumental in containerizing applications, splitting monolithic codebases into microservices, and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud. In addition, you will enable process improvements through robust DevOps practices, incorporating comprehensive release management strategies and optimized CI/CD pipelines.

Collaborating with product managers, tech leads, and engineering teams, you will define technology roadmaps, communicate architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in advanced technical approaches. This position requires a solid track record of delivering large-scale, reliable, and secure software solutions. While we prefer C# expertise, knowledge of other modern programming languages is also welcome.
 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
•    Leading and managing the software development teams, facilitating communication, empowering team members, and fostering a collaborative environment.
•    Overseeing the planning, scheduling, and execution of software projects. Managing resources and timelines and ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget.
•    Understanding the company's strategic goals and aligning the software development objectives to these goals. 
•    Collaboration with business partners on requirements elaboration, workflow design, configuration, and business re-engineering.
•    Evaluate options and provide recommendations on scope and scale of effort required to implement final requirements.
•    Able to work on multiple projects and initiatives with different/competing timelines and demands.
•    Work with delivery partners to review and finalize technical specifications, code review, version management, and implementation related activities.
•    Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, to drive delivery of solutions and meet service levels.
•    Maintaining a deep understanding of the technology stack and best practices in software development. Make informed decisions about technology choices and methodologies. Work closely with Architecture team to ensure execution of technology roadmap.
•    Ensuring the quality of the software developed by the teams. Establishing and enforcing quality standards, conducting code reviews, and overseeing testing and troubleshooting processes.
•    Collaborate across global businesses and technology organizations, providing sound business analysis, process, and change leadership.
•    Communicating effectively with other teams, stakeholders, and upper management. Providing regular updates on project progress, addressing concerns, and advocating for the team and its work.
•    Mentoring team members and helping them grow in their career. Identifying their strengths and areas for improvement, providing constructive feedback, and supporting their professional development.
•    Hire and develop a diverse team of talented engineers.
•    Participation in support activities such as troubleshooting, defect research, code promotion, and configuration.
 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
-15+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree or with an Advanced degree. 
-5+ years' experience as a techno people manager, 2+ years managing other people managers
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and operational best practices
for building and maintaining highly available / scalable applications.
-Proven track record of responsibilities as a manager, managing other leads and
people managers
-Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to mentor and guide
engineering teams at scale
-Have experience with consumer facing application development
-Experience with translating business requirements into technical designs
-Ability to work effectively with teams in different geographical location
-Prior experience of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) for scalable
development and deployment strategies
-Experience in financial services, banking, or FinTech is a plus
-.Net experience is a plus
-Experience in using GenAI tools in SDLC is a plus
-Experience with different database technologies (SQL and No-SQL) and
analytic techniques including process and data modeling
-Experience with C#, Java, Web Frameworks, JavaScript and container-based
technologies.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.